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Earlier this month, the US Federal Reserve’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted unanimously to increase the short-term interest...

Day after day, week after week, most British citizens think that the turmoil over their country’s proposed exit from the European Union cannot get any...

For governments everywhere, the shadow of the gilets jaunes (“yellow vests”), whose protests wracked France for several Saturdays before Christmas, now...

In times of political turmoil, events can move from impossible to inevitable without even passing through improbable. In early 2016, the idea of Britain...

Popular uprisings across France are threatening to shatter the hope that so many had placed in French President Emmanuel Macron after his election in May...

For many of the world’s economies, financial markets, heads of government, and carbon policies, 2018 did not end well. The scars of the global financial...

Forty years ago, on December 29, 1978, the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China released the official communiqué from its third plenary...

The World Bank and other multilateral institutions are increasingly promoting measures to “de-risk” infrastructure investments in developing countries,...

About a decade ago, the Commission on Growth and Development (which I chaired) published a report that attempted to distill 20 years of research and...

Discontent without end looms over Britain. Leavers and Remainers are equally despondent. Her Majesty’s Government and the Labour opposition are equally...